Questionnaire 3

1. Take some time to think about your topic. Now write down what you know about it.

Inquiry learning is all about asking the right questions! It is a constructivist pedagogy designed to assist students to build information literacies. Inquiry learning can be seen on a continuum from structured or highly teacher led inquiry to open or highly student directed inquiry at the other end of the continuum. All inquiry learning has the same basic tenets; it starts with a question, then moves into information seeking and ends with a way to “spread the word”. There are a number of different Inquiry learning models but not all models allow equivalent levels of student learning.

2. How interested are you in this topic?  Check (ü) one box that best matches your interest.

Not at all ☐    not much ☐    quite a bit ☐    a great deal ☐

3. How much do you know about this topic?  Check (ü) one box that best matches how much you know.

Nothing ☐     not much ☐    quite a bit ☐    a great deal ☐

4. Thinking back on your research project, what did you find easiest to do? Please mention as many things as you like.

I found it easy to locate information once I’d learnt about search strings and different databases. Eventually everything became easy to do (with practise). Blogging, posting video to YouTube, graphing, sentence structure/phrasing etc.

5. Thinking back on your research project, what did you find most difficult to do? Please mention as many things as you like.

It was hard to get the formatting on the blog page right when I copied and pasted from Word. In fact it was impossible, so that is something I’ll never do again! Deciding which category the students’ statements belonged in was also pretty difficult. The first time I tried doing anything it was hard, but everything became easier with practise. I suppose the hardest thing for me was making sure I got the work in on time!

6. What did you learn in doing this research project?

How to obtain information quickly and efficiently, from books and various internet sources. How to create graphs on Excel. How to use Snagit and PowerPoint. How to narrate to a Point Point presentation. How to upload videos to You Tube. How to determine whether information is accurate and valid. How to identify the appropriate parts of the masses of information at hand and phrase it sensibly in my blog posts. How to organise information so that it flowed sensibly and logically. How to create a fairly interesting blog site. That producing a large body of work is a good idea....but that I need to do it early enough to review the work later because mistakes can only be picked up by “fresh” eyes, preferably someone else’s!

7.  How do you now feel about your research? Check (ü) one box that best matches how you feel.

Unhappy  – I don’t feel confident with how it turned out ☐  

Confused – I don’t really know what I was looking for ☐

Confident – I think it turned out OK ☐

Happy – I’m really happy with how it turned out ☐